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SMWS Alumni White Paper Dear SMWS Community, It is with great pride that we share with you our first Alumni White Paper, entitled “A Portrait of the Shining Mountain Waldorf High School Graduate”. This article is the result of 18 months of dedicated research by Nita Davanzo, our Alumni Relations Coordinator and proud graduate of […]
What initially drew you in to pursuing Biology and Environmental Studies? (was it a former teacher, a “calling”, an interest in helping the planet and human beings, the interconnectedness of all things, or “just a whim?”) I knew I wanted to study Biology in college, but I had my “ah ha!” moment in a class […]
Can you give us a brief overview of what transpired in your life post-SMWS? After graduating from SMWS in 2001, I attended Connecticut College, which has fantastic international opportunities that allowed me to study and intern for United Nations organizations in both Vietnam and Germany. After graduating, I moved to Washington, D.C., where I worked […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfec6eF4I_4 From Waldorf Today: The point of this film is to introduce the concept of the upcoming Waldorf100 Centennial in 2019-2020. The goal is to help families and schools around the world recognize that Waldorf education can, and does, have an important impact on the challenges we face in the world today. Too often we get […]
What Can You Do With A Waldorf Education? Anything. And Everything. Please join us for a special evening with some of our treasured Shining Mountain alumni and learn how Waldorf education and their time at SMWS have impacted their life paths and what wonderful things they are doing now in their lives! Event: SMWS Alumni […]
National German Awards 10th, 11th and 12th grade Shining Mountain Waldorf German students took the American Association of German Teachers national exams at the end of January. There were about 20,000 participants in all. Please congratulate the following students who received awards in this tough competition: Alec Evans (12th grade) – Level 4 Goldurkunde (Gold […]
Board of Trustees Notes and Votes for January 10, 2017 At January 10, 2017 meeting the Board of Trustees: Welcomed the members of the Governance Council: Marilyn Fox, Dorothea Altgelt, Theresa Baker, Cherie Flandrick, Jamie York. Participated in a discussion regarding tuition setting, led by Andy Wyckoff-Judson, Treasurer. The Finance Committee has recommended a tuition […]
Interviewed by SMWS alumna & current Alumni Coordinator, Nita DaVanzo From your time of graduation from SMWS in 2001 to now, where have your steps taken you? Down some expected and some very unexpected paths. I started my college career at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. After a year of academics I was invited on […]